Drug cases soar during crackdown
8 December 2017
Drug cases rose in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period last year.

General Meas Vyrith, general secretary of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, said there were 5,549 cases this year. This was a rise of 2,143 cases, or 63 percent, on the first nine months of 2016.

Police and military police arrested 12,255 people, including 1,266 women in the nine months of this year. The figure was an increase of 4,158 people, or 51 percent.
“We confiscated 359 kilos of drugs include methamphetamine, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine and ketamine,” Gen Vyrith said.

The authority’s report said that among those arrested were 11,988 Cambodians, including 1,198 women.
There were 215 Vietnamese, 13 Chinese, eight Lao, eight Nigerians, six French, three Americans, three Thais, three Russians and other nationals arrested as well.
Valuables seized included 76 cars, 1,473 motorbikes and thousands of dollars.

Properties frozen included two hotels, a guesthouse and land, the report said...
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I think Cambodian logic is at play here, arrest all the small dealers and users, then the big boys won't have anyone to sell to. So therefore we won't have to bother the bong toms with our pesky war on drugs!

proven to be effective globally

thing that would be most welcome is a crack down on noise pollution "hello tuk tuk" every time anyone goes anywhere near the front gate.

Imposter555 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:12 am thing that would be most welcome is a crack down on noise pollution "hello tuk tuk" every time anyone goes anywhere near the front gate.

Maybe if the Chinese put another Saloth Sar type in charge of things like before it will happen.

Where will they put them all? The prisons are at 200% plus

Possibly new prisons are being built while we type......................................................

maybe they can be sent to factories for reeducation and their wages held in trust for their release and rehabilitation.
when i was a kid they gave minor offenders the choice of jail or the army

Another report. More figures from the 2017 "crackdown".

- The government officially launched its second anti-drug campaign from July 1 to December 31, 2017 and said it was a success.

According to an annual report on February 5, authorities cracked down on 8,173 cases involving illegal drugs in 2017 compared with 4,246 the previous year, an increase of 92 percent.

Authorities seized more than 296 kilograms of illegal drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine, heroin, and marijuana.

A total of 17,795 suspects were arrested last year, a 79 percent increase over the 9,933 arrested in 2016. In addition, authorities confiscated 88 vehicles, 2,246 motorbikes and about $51,000 in various currencies.

Foreigners involved in drug offences came from 24 different countries including Vietnam, China, France, Australia, Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, the US, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, Taiwan and England.

Meanwhile, there was a 9.43 percent increase in the number of drug users receiving treatment at local community health centres, with 15,796 drug users receiving treatment last year compared with 11,601 in 2016.
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